I received this Arc from Netgalley. Thank you for the chance to read this book early. My review is honest and 100% my own thoughts about the book.

I really liked the premise of this book. When I first signed up for the arc, I didn’t realize it was a “self-help” book. I thought it was an erotic novel. However I really enjoyed this. It didn’t feel like I had a judge mental person talking me through the book. Rather it felt like a really good friend that I could trust hugging me and talking me though things.

I loved the message of loving your self both mentally and physically before you are able to have those feeling for anyone else! I also liked how sex positive this book was and had questions for you to answer. It helped you find your self sexually and help you communicate your needs and desires to your partner as well as many other prompts. What I really really enjoyed was that this book was very inclusive. It didn’t matter what your sexual orientation or what sexuality you are. All are welcome! When referring t the body, the author didn’t talk about gender or assigned a gender to the person with the body parts. They just talked about the parts with the proper term. This book was well written and an interesting read.

While this book was informative it was a bit difficult to read in kindle format. I still think I’d like to get a paper copy,

"My Pleasure" was a bit unexpected. More self-help than how-to. This could be a good exploration tool for someone looking to dig deeper in to understanding what brings them pleasure. Also a nice little confidence boost!

Thank you to NetGalley & the publisher for providing an eARC for review.

This was a relentlessly positive (particularly body positive) guide to figuring out what you like sensually and sexually. The chapters on communication were well done and I liked how she gave models on different ways to talk about sometimes awkward or hard to bring up subjects. And while this seemed more female-oriented I picked up several good tips.

While this wasn't exactly what I had in mind, it did cover a lot of basics and introductions to getting to know your own body. There was a much heavier focus on body positivity and acceptance (which is great!) but not really where I thought it was going. Probably a great choice for introductions and a younger audience.

I really enjoyed reading this book. Very insightful and very impowering, however it did get repetitive at times!

I appreciate what the author sets out to do in this book: educate sexual beings about the importance of pleasure and how to pragmatically achieve it. I liked that the author considers accessibility in what she writes about, but she also leaves it to the reader to do research into accessible and mobility-divergent toys, props, etc.

Overall, the tone felt cheesy and kitschy to me. It didn't feel like a sophisticated book about pleasure. I would recommend this book to someone who is entering into their sexuality for the first time and need a roadmap from personal to partnered pleasure.

This book cover alot that I wish I learned as a teenager/young woman. I will use this as a guide to talk to my teenage girls about their body and sexuality.

Thank you to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for the chance to read an early copy of this book!

This book was a lot more of a general self-help book than I expected. There was a lot of inclusivity for all kinds of bodies and identities, and there's a very friendly chatty tone. But the portion on "solo play" doesn't start until about 1/3 of the way through, after a lot of discussion of self-love, self-confidence, and self-acceptance, and the portion on "partner play" is practically an afterthought, at about 3/4 through the book. (Though in between those two chapters there's a portion on sex toys, which could of course go either way.) Also, when the cover copy talks about "lush visuals," it is not the kind of visuals I thought; these are not, er, instructional, but rather highly stylized colorful forms suggestive of the human body, almost like art at a hotel trying to be edgy. It's more like a coffee table pep talk "love yourself and feel comfortable exploring and communicating" than anything that goes into super-explicit detail. I didn't come away from this book (snerk) having learned anything new; as other reviewers have noted, this might work well for younger readers.

I received this book for free for review purposes from NetGalley the the publishers. WOW!!! "My Pleasure" was absolutely fabulous. My highlights were all of the positive body image content woven in with sex positive content. As a plus-sized curvy lady, I deeply related to Delarato's life experiences. Books like "My Pleasure" should be taught as sex-ed material for high schoolers. It was informative, well-written, and also funny. We should be able to have fun when we talk about sex and our bodies. I also absolutely adored the list of resources and references at the end of "My Pleasure" and have a whole list of new books and other things to check out. I have already recommended this book to my friends. Thanks to Delarato for teaching me some new tricks and tips, especially related to sex-toy safety and lube safety. This novel is a winner.

This book did a great job talking about self-love, self-worth, body-positivity, self-care, etc. Warning if you are not comfortable with sex, your sexuality, or similar topics that you will not enjoy this book. I think it is worth a read.

This would be a great guide for young adults, or perhaps people who have had prescriptive ideas and standards about sex and pleasure forced on them for religious, cultural, or other reasons. It's a wonderfully sex-positive, life-affirming manifesto for how to live a life full of self-knowledge and self-care, both solo and with others. Explanations of complicated and "taboo" topics are clear and presented without judgment and there are lots of helpful exercises and scripts for readers to learn themselves and to practice communicating with others, especially on subjects that can be uncomfortable or fraught. It takes most people decades to learn these things, but perhaps a great book like this can help get people on the path to a happier, more fulfilled life of pleasure sooner!

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!

Reading this book was like chatting with a friend. Laura's approach to a subject that some might find uncomfortable was honest and informative. The message of living a pleasure filled life begins with loving your whole self. I thought there would be more focus on the sex aspect of self love as the title lead me to believe but I was not terribly disappointed. There are exercises and assignments you can work through or not. I love all the resources provided as well. From podcasts to explore to the best sex toy websites recommended by the author. She even included a glossary! The one disappointment for me were the illustrations. I just couldn't get into them.

This is a well thought out book covering many aspects of relationship to yourself and others. At its core is loving and respecting yourself and feeling safe to share yourself with others. It stresses making connections emotionally & physically and practicing meaningful communication. Thanks to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This book didn't really work for me. As much as I love all the positivity and advice and information, nothing really rang new. I usually love conversational pieces but this one I really had to force myself to read. I wish it hit home a little more. Art was nice but sometimes a little tacky.

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. This book really wasn't written for me and I didn't find that I gained anything from it.

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Well .. this was enlightening.

My Pleasure was quite the different book that I was expecting to read. It was empowering to read. I am giving it four stars.

I loved the body-positive and gender/sexuality inclusive tone that the author set from page one. I strongly believe that self-confidence and the nature of one's relationship with their body play a huge role in the way they sexually express themselves. I really enjoyed the intro at the beginning of the book and I think it really helped me to understand at the very beginning what I could expect from the book and what headspace I needed to be in to get the most out of it as possible. I also appreciated the discreet cover design!

My only complaint with this galley was that the epub file I was sent was almost unreadable–the copyright banners on all of the pages made the formatting of the book severely disrupted and it crashed my Kindle twice trying to read it. I'll look forward to the finished version when it is released!

A interesting book and I enjoyed the layout of the book and enjoyed, too, the author's style . . . but, for myself, I found my interesting waning over time and lost interest a bit as I continued reading.

I think this is a fabulous book but perhaps just not a fabulous book for me. Still, it was well done and offered valuable tips not just sexually but also sound advice on living a fully integrated life.